Camille-Mary Sharp
Biographic Data
| ID | 6560506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Camille-Mary Sharp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Camille-Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharp |
| SIGNATURE | SHARP C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1036-898X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cultural sustainability and cultural leadership
Over the past two decades, cultural heritage experts have increasingly called on museums to mobilise their audiences and resources towards inspiring urgent climate action. One institution leading the turn to environmental museology is the Climate Museum, established in 2014 in New York City by founding director, Miranda Massie, who left a career in social justice litigation to launch the Museum. Massie has pioneered an approach to community engag…
Countering and colouring against mining convention
This commentary details the creative media interventions of the collective Beyond Extraction, working to counter the largest mining convention in the world, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), held annually in Toronto, Canada
Museum funding as critical practice
While museums face an unprecedented amount of public backlash over their financial partnerships with donors and sponsors from harmful industries, the administrative practices of funding and fundraising remain understudied in museum scholarship. Responding to growing polarization between museums and stakeholder groups like artists, activists, and cultural workers, this article highlights findings from recent interviews with museum professionals ab…
Oil-Sponsored Exhibitions and Canada’s Extractive Politics of Cultural Production
Focusing on the Canadian Museum of History’s newest permanent exhibition, The Canadian History Hall (2017), and its sponsorship by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (), this article discusses oil-sponsored museum exhibitions and the extractive politics within which Canadian culture is produced. This article begins with an overview of The Canadian History Hall and the activist response to its sponsorship by Big Oil. It then situates …
Shell is Proud to Present… The Spirit Sings’
This article re-examines the renowned Canadian exhibition, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada’s First Peoples (1988) through a lens of corporate, national, and institutional interests. The author positions The Spirit Sings as a productive historical case study for contemporary questions of decolonization and divestment in museums. Using archival and interview findings from her doctoral research, the author highlights the sponsorship …
Museum funding as critical practice
While museums face an unprecedented amount of public backlash over their financial partnerships with donors and sponsors from harmful industries, the administrative practices of funding and fundraising remain understudied in museum scholarship. Responding to growing polarization between museums and stakeholder groups like artists, activists, and cultural workers, this article highlights findings from recent interviews with museum professionals ab…
Oil-Sponsored Exhibitions and Canada’s Extractive Politics of Cultural Production
Focusing on the Canadian Museum of History’s newest permanent exhibition, The Canadian History Hall (2017), and its sponsorship by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (), this article discusses oil-sponsored museum exhibitions and the extractive politics within which Canadian culture is produced. This article begins with an overview of The Canadian History Hall and the activist response to its sponsorship by Big Oil. It then situates …
Shell is Proud to Present… The Spirit Sings’
This article re-examines the renowned Canadian exhibition, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada’s First Peoples (1988) through a lens of corporate, national, and institutional interests. The author positions The Spirit Sings as a productive historical case study for contemporary questions of decolonization and divestment in museums. Using archival and interview findings from her doctoral research, the author highlights the sponsorship …
Countering and colouring against mining convention
This commentary details the creative media interventions of the collective Beyond Extraction, working to counter the largest mining convention in the world, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), held annually in Toronto, Canada
Museum funding as critical practice
While museums face an unprecedented amount of public backlash over their financial partnerships with donors and sponsors from harmful industries, the administrative practices of funding and fundraising remain understudied in museum scholarship. Responding to growing polarization between museums and stakeholder groups like artists, activists, and cultural workers, this article highlights findings from recent interviews with museum professionals ab…
Cultural sustainability and cultural leadership
Over the past two decades, cultural heritage experts have increasingly called on museums to mobilise their audiences and resources towards inspiring urgent climate action. One institution leading the turn to environmental museology is the Climate Museum, established in 2014 in New York City by founding director, Miranda Massie, who left a career in social justice litigation to launch the Museum. Massie has pioneered an approach to community engag…
Museums and Cultural Heritage (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Exhibition (2 works) · Art history (1 work) · Art History and Market Analysis (1 work) · Climate change (1 work) · Conservation Techniques and Studies (1 work) · Convention (1 work)